Bus Carrying High School Students Collided With FedEx Truck in Northern California,USA Thursday April 10,2014

At least 9 people were killed and as many as 50 injured on Thursday April 10,2014 when a tour bus carrying high school students collided with a FedEx truck in Northern California, a California Highway Patrol (CHP) spokeswoman said.

Massive flames could be seen devouring both vehicles just after the crash, and clouds of black smoke billowed into the sky until firefighters had quenched the fire, leaving behind scorched black hunks of metal. Bodies were draped in yellow plastic inside the burned-out bus.

California Highway Patrol dispatchers said the drivers of the tractor-trailer and bus were among the dead, along with 7 other people who were riding on the bus.

The crash happened a little after 5:30 p.m. on Interstate 5 near Orland, a small city about 100 miles north of Sacramento.

The truck driver lost control of the vehicle, crossed over a divider on Interstate 5 and then slammed into a passenger vehicle and then the tour bus, CHP spokeswoman Fran Clader said.